Wyoming School Meets LEED Standards
A new elementary school in Greybull, Wyoming, will be the only one in the state built according to LEED standards, the Casper Star Tribune reports.
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MHA & GreenTech Anticipate $1.5 Million in Energy Savings
Millville, New Jersey Housing Authority commissioners inked an energy services contract with GreenTech Energy Services which is expected to save them close to $1.5 million over the next 15 years, Bridgeton News reports. The energy services contract will not exceed $863,937.
NY State Police Deploy Fuel Cell Backups
The New York Power Authority is working with the New York State Police in a $434,000 program to deploy fuel cells that will provide backup power at 22 public safety communications facilities...
W&M Construction Converts Fleet to Hybrids
W&M Construction of Stamford, Conn., is converting its entire fleet of Dodge Ram pickups and Dodge Durangos to Ford Escape Hybrids in a drive to promote and use environmentally friendly technologies, says Tim Yahn, president of W&M Construction. Through an agreement with Ford, the firm accepted delivery of its first ... Read more »
C&A Floorcoverings Replaces Boiler Diesel with Biodiesel
C&A Floorcoverings, a Tandus company, is meeting the goals of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by replacing diesel used in its commercial boilers with 100 percent biodiesel, a renewable energy source manufactured by Soymet. C&A said it is the first and only carpet manufacturer to date to use biodiesel as an ... Read more »
SCE Signs Largest-Ever U.S. Utility Wind Energy Contract
Southern California Edison has signed a wind energy contract with Alta Windpower Development, a subsidiary of Allco Financial Group of Australia, that’s the largest wind energy contract ever signed by a U.S. utility. It secures for SCE customers 1,500 megawatts or more of power generated by new projects to be built in ... Read more »
GE Selling Hydro Business to PGC
GE Energy plans to sell its hydro business to Pescarmona Group of Companies. The sale includes GE Energy’s worldwide hydro business, excluding GE’s hydro operations in Norway and Sweden, although an offer by PGC to purchase the operations in Norway and Sweden is under consideration. Terms of the agreement were not ... Read more »
BHEL Wins Another Contract From Indian Oil for Co-Generation Plant
BHEL has bagged another major order from Indian Oil Corporation for setting up an energy efficient co-generation power plant at its Haldia Refinery Complex. The order, for a Frame-5 Gas Turbine-based Co-generation power plant, is worth Rs.1,650 Million. The project is being set up to meet the requirement of uninterrupted power supply, ... Read more »
New York State Evaluating PHEV Technology
The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority has awarded A123Systems, a developer of nanophosphate-based batteries, and Hymotion contracts to provide three converted plug-in hybrid electric passenger vehicles. NYSERDA wants to identify a PHEV-conversion method for its 400-plus New York State-owned hybrid electric vehicles – primarily late-model Toyota Prius, ... Read more »
Constellation Energy Wins Wind Power Agreement With WSSC
Constellation Energy has inked a 10-year contract to provide wind power to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. The 10-year agreement will meet WSSC’s goal of using wind power for approximately one-third of its electricity needs. WSSC General Manager Andrew Brunhart said the agreement will lower the agency’s energy expenditures by ... Read more »
NRG Selected by NYPA to Build $1.5 Billion IGCC Plant
NRG Energy received a conditional contract from the New York Power Authority to build a 680 net megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant at its Huntley facility in Tonawanda, New York. The project, which represents a total project cost of approximately $1.5 billion, is scheduled to go into commercial operation ... Read more »
Poultry Industry Evaluates Solar for Growout Houses
WorldWater & Power will build a $500,000 PV system to power Allen Family Foods’ poultry growout house in Laurel, Delaware. Growout houses take day-old chicks and raise them to maturity. The poultry industry is looking to solar as a cost effective, sustainable energy source for the future of growout contractors ... Read more »